The Bachman Books - Richard Bachman

The Bachman books are perhaps some of the lesser know Stephen King books. Clearly this has to do with the fact that they were published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman but possibly also with their subject matter. They are somewhat different from many of his other books and do not concentrate as much on horror and the supernatural as King's book usually do. Instead they deal with the horror that is humanity and the cruelty that lives within ...
...5 books under the Bachman pseudonym. These were Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man and Thinner. The first four of these are collected in what has simply been called the Bachman Books. Quite why Thinner has not been included I do not know, although my guess, after having read it, is that the theme is different to the other stories. This is more of a 'proper' horror story and as such does not blend so well with the others. I guess it's ...

annaroos1 12.02.2007 · Read full review
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...were not your run of the mill horror, he was found out by a journalist who spotted his name on some copywrite documents and then stopped using it. As a King fan I was looking forward to reading this book, which is a compilation of four stories written under his pseudonym, and I was not dissapointed. As I said, these are not your usual horrors, dealing instead with a more psychological thriller aspect. The first story is Rage, the story of a student ...
...it has you wondering all the way through whats going to happen next, kept me gripped. Then there is The Long Walk, a fascinating story about a contest where 100 young men quite literally walk until only one is left alive, sound boring? It isn't!! The interaction between the contestants as they go along is stunning and had me close to tears at points. Roadworks is the story of a man, Bart Dawes, slowly going insane as he deals with his family home ...

Vickijake 16.12.2007 · Read full review
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...don't know, Richard Bachmans is the alias that Steven King uses when he wants to write something a bit different. The Bachman books are a compilation of short stories and they are brilliant. My personal favourite is The Long Walk, set in future America (not too far though), when teenage boys compete to be entered into the Long Walk. 100 finalists then walk across Central America, until they drop basically. If you break the rules you are shot and ...

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Review of The Bachman Books - Richard Bachman